Biofuels Digest Special Report on Gasification & Pyrolysis: Coskata aims for grand scale in Florida

Last December, Coskata was ranked #1 on the Biofuels Digest “Hottest 50 Companies in Bioenergy”, nearing an historic deal to build a 100 Mgy gasification based cellulosic ethanol plan based on gasification of sugarcane bagasse. The deal has not been finalized, but would require one million tons of biomass from 32,500 acres. That’s 51 square [...]

February 16, 2009 | Jim Lane | Comments 0

Special Report on Cellulosic Ethanol: Verenium leaps into lead in race for commercial-scale CE, with 36 Mgy Florida project

The question of who would announce the first commercial-scale ethanol project has been the subject of intense speculation. Many observers looked to the rumored Coskata 100 Mgy sugar waste-to-ethanol project as the one that would get out of the blocks first. The scuttlebutt had the location right: Florida will be home to the first project [...]

January 19, 2009 | Jim Lane | Comments 0

Special Report on Cellulosic Ethanol: in gasification, Coskata leads the way with feasible 100 Mgy process, project

In gasification, the lead news item in recent weeks has been speculation about the on-again, off-again project between US Sugar and Coskata to develop a 100 Mgy facility in Florida.
The hold up is an agreement between the State of Florida and US Sugar over land which will be used by the state for Everglades restoration. [...]

January 19, 2009 | Jim Lane | Comments 0

Notes on Coskata (and other gasification and cellulosic) yields

There has been a lot of discussion of the viability of cellulosic ethanol production models in the scientific literature, but just a few in popular media. Herewith are some notes on how cellulosic yields work out in real-world situations.
The Coskata model presupposes a yield of around 100 gallons per ton of biomass. ZeaChem is seeing [...]

December 24, 2008 | Jim Lane | Comments 0

Sapphire Energy adds BP Global Refining head as President

In California, BP’s Group VP for Global Refining, Cynthia “C.J.” Warner, will leave the company to join algae-to-energy pioneer Sapphire Energy as President, as the #2 ranked company in the ‘50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy” commences its transition from test and trial phase into production of green crude for transportation fuel markets.
More background on the [...]

December 24, 2008 | Jim Lane | Comments 0

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